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Who's the owners of RackNerd?
Why can't racknerd afford to keep their current DC?
Dude, just look it up. Also, lol, just read their statement.
I sense a language barrier
There's a thread about it on NS which might help you.
That depends on what they offered. "VPS in LA in DC3" or "VPS in LA". If it's the former, then they should refund people who specifically bought it because it was in DC3 and not DC2. If it's the latter, then there's no issue.
If someone advertises a 4 vCPU VPS and change it to a 2 vCPU VPS, it's a scam (or at least a violation of contract). If someone advertises a 4 vCPU VPS that happens to have AMD EPYC and it changes to Intel Xeon it's not a scam, but if it was advertised specifically as AMD EPYC then it is.
Never thought I'd ever been defending purple daddy,lol.
Mjjs taking it to the next level
I agree but racknerd sold it at that DC then just forced everyone to move. That's a scam just like you said.
Dunno but it's easy enough to find out.
A lot of things happen that are outside of a provider's control. A datacenter might increase pricing for power, for example. In the early 2000s, hosting was a lucrative business, but these days, it's hard enough just to break even. Even the smallest financial overheads can be amplified over thousands of customers to the point where a migration is the only sensible solution.
Hell, sometimes this even happens when the migration has to be to an entirely different country. I had a VPS in the UK which I bought specifically because it was in the UK that had to be moved to the Netherlands. The provider was very apologetic and offered me a full refund if I wanted it, because moving countries is going to affect a lot more people than moving datacenters within the same city.
Then they should refund the people who bought it specifically because it was in that one DC, and I think they offered that, didn't they? The alternative could very well be that they'd have to increase prices, causing them to lose customers, causing them to eventually close up shop.
What is purple daddy and mjj?
Also why do you have racknerd links on your signature???? Is that why you're defending them?
guys stop he's using you to help with his rn agenda
Why the coverup for racknerd? It seems everyone is covering it up like their scam is ok and others isn't....
Why such double standards?
MJJ is slang from the Chinese Nodeseek forum (basically the Chinese equivalent of LET). Here, it has come to mean (among other things) an entitled Chinese customer. Calling a provider a scammer when they move from one DC to another DC in the same city (or complaining over a refund being a few cents short, or complaining that their unmanaged service isn't being managed) is something that an MJJ would do.
You really need to re-calibrate what you consider to be a scam over here. Some things that are normal within the hosting industry may not seem normal to outsiders. So going after RackNerd, which is an established provider with no history of serious drama, is going to look like you're just trying to cause trouble. We get a lot of real scammers here, so people perceive you barging in and going after a well-behaved provider and are naturally going to push back. It's like being angry that North Korea isn't obeying the GPL and releasing the source code for Red Star OS.
So some are defending them because they're getting kickbacks as an affiliate??
Sigh...just Google " I'm your daddy" to answer that
No. It's because they are a legit provider.
Are you an affiliate of racknerd? Is this why you're defending them?
Yes and no. Why does it matter?
Hey Velox, how are you?
You clearly have a blurred view on “Scam” that only seems to be blurred, when it helps cover your own, oops btw you admitted it was a scam!
Velox force after purchase KYC, revoked servers, violated contracts, target doxed & terminated customers.
Racknerd, 1 DC swap, full migrations, extended time, same city, same hardware.
One is an operational failure, that they are working towards fixing, the other is a scamthat amplified it by abusing black-friday to mass-sell his oversold hardware, that they had no intention on keeping.
A lot of us have affiliate links in our signatures, but it doesn't indicate that we have any particularly close relationship with the provider. Very little money, if any, is to be made by defending them.
Gotcha you're defending them because they're giving you kickbacks.
What about me little boy? I got no affiliates
Im not even defending them. I'm not a RN fan and Dustin knows it .
RN serves it's purposes
though. They're legit low-end
Racknerd sold for that specific DC and can't hold their agreement. They even said they sold it for that specific DC. This is obviously a scam.
Racknerd sold for that specific DC, they even said so in the post. How isn't that a scam?
Never earned a single penny promotion them so your point is moot.
Suuuure
Facepalm
So no actual argument, but to repeat the same point and purposely try “blur” it again like these are remotely different scenarios.
What is this “bought” a specific DC BS, show me racknerds contract that says that, if somone bought specifically for the DC that’s a very particular situation but not scam.
Scam implied racknerd has failed on a contractual obligation they have not, you bought server in LA, you keeping server in LA. ur pea brain hurting my real brain
Gee, who else just repeated the same bullshit over and over again and ignored all logic presented to them in this thread??? HI ERIC! @angstrom @DP can we be done with this mainmod fool already?
Thanks for understanding.
Re my question... You a client? Why you care?
Apparently they didn't, but despite that, they offered a refund anyway. Which is absolutely standard.
Letting aside the argument of whether or not RackNerd advertised DC2 specifically, the fact is that they offered a refund. If a provider cannot provide the service they advertised, it's not a scam unless they fail to provide and run away with your money. They could fold tomorrow and destroy everyone's VPSes and if they offered a pro-rated refund, it wouldn't be a scam (just really unfortunate).
Mainmod = Eric
No they didn't. This is the problem. They offered a credit which they can't use anymore since they don't have the DC. If they offered a prorated refund then it's perfectly fine, otherwise it's a complete scam